Up Mafolie Hill, over on UVI"s campus and a lot of other places are the remnants of enormous cisterns which, last time I looked, served local people who would go there and fill up containers with water of dubious quality. This was a great idea but like so many great ideas was abandoned when some other source of water, like shipping it from Puerto Rico, was used. Think what it would be like if those cisterns were retrofitted with solar panels instead of tiles. We would have water catchment and power 'catchment' all in one place. It would create a redundant water and power system which would compliment the movement to personal WAPA units. Can't have too much fresh water and can't have too much potential power.
Also great to have you up and running again, Amaziah.
I loved this article, brilliant idea and I liked the parallel to individual water retention/conservation efforts. Having the public utility be tasked with putting in rooftop solar infrastructure across the island is an awesome idea instead of importing and burning more expensive polluting oil. Why shouldn't the utility do that? own the infrastructure and lease the locations for it. A combination individual & public grid interconnection could be very resiliant.
Up Mafolie Hill, over on UVI"s campus and a lot of other places are the remnants of enormous cisterns which, last time I looked, served local people who would go there and fill up containers with water of dubious quality. This was a great idea but like so many great ideas was abandoned when some other source of water, like shipping it from Puerto Rico, was used. Think what it would be like if those cisterns were retrofitted with solar panels instead of tiles. We would have water catchment and power 'catchment' all in one place. It would create a redundant water and power system which would compliment the movement to personal WAPA units. Can't have too much fresh water and can't have too much potential power.
Also great to have you up and running again, Amaziah.
I loved this article, brilliant idea and I liked the parallel to individual water retention/conservation efforts. Having the public utility be tasked with putting in rooftop solar infrastructure across the island is an awesome idea instead of importing and burning more expensive polluting oil. Why shouldn't the utility do that? own the infrastructure and lease the locations for it. A combination individual & public grid interconnection could be very resiliant.